Practice of Medicine (Final year module)
Semester Spring, Fall
Programme description
The Practice of Medicine Programme at the Department of General Practice and Primary Care, King's College London, School of Medicine.
The Practice of Medicine course (MX1000) offers a customised and competitive learning opportunity for North American graduates registered or thinking of registering for their Medical Degrees.
The programme offers a strong grounding in both theory and practice, with input from a range of specialists in General Practice, Medical Sociology and Anthropology, Medical Ethics and Law. A key feature of the programme is active learning where a series of clinical placement rotations enable you to apply class theory to a number of primary and secondary care settings ranging from work in:
- An emergency room
- Nursing home
- Alcohol recovery programme
- Walk-in centres
- Day surgery clinics
- Operating theatres
- Family medicine
These placements are also supported by professional role players where you will have the opportunity to engage in a number of scenarios to learn and develop:
- Active listening skills
- Taking & presenting a case and family history
- Hypothetico deductive and inductive clinical reasoning
Weekly lecture/seminar sessions cover the following key areas:
- Health care systems in an international comparative context
- Structure and functioning of general practice in the UK
- Medical ethics (confidentiality, end of life decisions, medical research)
- Medical sociology and anthropology (health and illness behaviours, social role of medicine)
You will also have access to regular departmental seminars presentations ranging from:
- Primary health care issues
- Departmental research findings
- Guest speakers and policy debates
- Current 'Hot Topics'
Overall the Premedical Programme provides a range of learning environments in a friendly student-centred environment, with small and interactive classes.
Mathew Todres, Premedical Tutor
mathew.todres@kcl.ac.uk
Pre-requisites
A cumulative GPA of 3.3 or above is required, as is a strong interest in learning about the Practice of Medicine.
Assessment
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Credits
4